THE N W YORKEß buttoned suits înd their high-crowned derby hats and their stern mustached faces. They were a sharp and true as a period photograph But I couldn't picture anything of the past that lay under the meadows. All I could See were the rol1ing meadows flowerIng in the sun, and they looked like any pretty 111ount...lin 111eadows. Tholnpson ca111e back around the ('01 ner of the house. With him was a t<lll, tanned boy of seventeen or eight- Lln. He was î serious-looking boy. Tholnpson introduced us " TI ' . T . S . " 1 . d H 1IS IS 1m Inger, le sal. e reached into the car and brought out a roll of plastIc speci11len bags and two geologic hamlners. He handed me one of the hamlners and stuck the bags in his pocket. "Tim grew up in this coun- try, and he knows his fossils. He's go- ing to show us around the old Scudder bed." "I could show you somethIng else, " T . . d " I ' ll 1 too, 1111 SdI . S lOW you our biggest petrified sequoia, if you want to see it. It's 11lore or less on the wav." .I " I ' d l ' k . " [ . d . I e to see It, saI. " I ' ... ." TJ t s a tine speCImen, lotnpson said. "'.,. e fonowed a path up a slope be- hind the house. Halfway up the slope, the path level1ed out înd broadened into a c;;unken shelf. A big, furrowed, 11larble-like COlUll1D was rooted in the 111iddle of the shelf, like a fountain in a forll1al garden. That was the se- quoia. Tim cleared his throat ånd changed his VOIce. "This is the biggest petrified tree in the world," he said. "It is fourteen feet tall and seventy-four feet in circum- ference. [t weIghs forty tons. It used to he 111uch taller. [n 1892, around forty feet were cut off the top to show at the ChIcago V\T orld's Fair, and sou- venIr hunters have been chipping At it for a hundred years. They estImate thît the living tree was three hundred and fifq, feet tall." l\T e stood and looked at the ston} Stu111p. It was curious, but that was aU. " () K " T . d " L ' . ' ., 1111 SaI. et s go on to th e fossil bed." Scudder's L.Ul1ouS fossil bed was even less itl1pressive than the stump. It was not 111uch 11101 e than a dItch. It was a wîsh, a gun}, a shallow gulch ahout fift} feet long worn into the flank of a grass-grown ridge, and we Were walking up its dusty flool before I kne\\T what it was. The floor of the bed was rubble, and the walls were crunlbling strata of gravel, shale, and rocklike volcanic tuff. The tuff formed the uppel most stratum. There was a crust of it just under the carpet of 151 E ßI e5 ea 5 .. e a e lee a a a 55 a 5 5 a ' e as 5e ee . .. ... ....... : I .....:.. .:u ?,:ß:$.-;:'" :: ) ,,0 . . , ' . <^ :::: I :'*'. ,y\ :::' *.'::-h ,:: ull! 'd" ( ,J ;w rt::: , 'x , ;.:. y. ,: . ? . ... ! :' :, t ., ,( ,', Ekco Flint steak knives Won- derful to give! A delight to use! Waverly cutting edges so sharp they vi rtua Ily sl ide th rough the most gristly steak problems. Hand- some handles, too, of virtually indestructible mahogany Pakkawood@. Ask for Ekco Flint steak knives by name, the only steak knives with a 15 year guarantee 6-piece steak knife set. Mediterranean or Americana holdsters. Gift boxed. . . a most-welcomed gift item! Ekco steak sets priced from Approximately $17.95. *EKCO FLINT CUTLERY GUARANTEE. If this prodùct fails due to defects in workmanship or materials within 15 years Ekco will replace or provide equivalent substitute at no charge. I . '. f."", , J....... ... "'.3 ''':'." ,." ,." EKCO@ Send for Ekco's free Cookery Book Write Dept. N1311 Ekco House- wares, Franklin Park, III. 60131. r---------------------------. I Portugal has a little bit of 0 All of the tours listed below I I every great vacatlon spot 0 Fly & Dnve: $337 per person I I packed into one country the for two weeks I I size of the State of Malne 0 Sun, Sand & Sea: $598 I I And 1.t never stops beIng . per person for 15 days I .. E . . 11 th 0 Three Resorts. $657 I I excZtlng. .speCla .y. ": way per person for 15 days . I we can show It to you tn our 0 Lands of Romance: $429 I I uLands f Rotnance H Tour. per person for 15 days. I I For as little as $429 per . . 0 Castle Tour Brochure.1 person (including round trip 0 Extra.. Value I J economy tICket) we can take . Vacahon Brochures., you sunning and relaxing ni'l\ Portuguese Airways. I I through Portugal, Spain and .nr Tour Department Morocco. 6D15thAve.N.l\C.1oo17 I Let us take you on a tour of Na me I I I Portugal. We're the attUne Address , · thaHreats you as CitÚ Stii t? Z ' I ..the"CQuntry it Pies you to. - tp "I Ji,.Trapel áQen t ;' J - ' .:;.. i: .;t": PI. TUGAL. IT HAS EURO · I'S SIGHTS, PUERTO RICO'S SUN. ANDTHE (ARIBBEAN'S CASINOS. ;r . ', . PrIces acc01"dzng to day and season of travel PrIce based on G.I T fare mmlmum 15 persons travell11.g together G1